*Please copy and paste your entire submission into one attachment when you upload your file.*
Please submit only once per genre during each submission period (09/01 – 08/31); multiple submissions received after the initial submission will not be read or replied to.
Please be advised that, while submissions are accepted year-round, our response time varies seasonally, with October – January having the slowest response time.
Simultaneous submissions are OK, so long as you inform us in the comments section of our submissions manager. If your work is accepted elsewhere first and is no longer available, congratulations! We’re really excited for you! Just please remember to remove that piece from our submissions manager.
Paper Nautilus Open Chapbook Contest - $11.00
Paper Nautilus is now accepting previously unpublished chapbook manuscripts of poetry, prose, or mixed genre.
• Submission period: May 15th, 2012 through August 1st, 2012. $11 per submission. Multiple entries are allowed, but each must be accompanied by an additional entry fee.
• Manuscripts should be between 10 and 20 pages of poetry, or 3500 to 7000 words of prose.
• For the purposes of this contest, 1 page is equal to roughly 350 words of prose, or 30-32 lines of poetry.
• Prior publication of individual pieces is OK, just as long as the collection as a whole is unpublished. Please include any acknowledgement of prior publication in the cover letter field when uploading to the submissions manager.
• Simultaneous submission is OK, just as long as you withdraw the manuscript immediately should it become unavailable.
• Prize: Publication, and the full print run of 100 copies of the chapbook. Chapbook will be 5.5″ x 8.5″ and perfect bound with glossy, full color cover. The winner may also purchase additional bulk copies from Paper Nautilus, if s/he would like.
• Judge: A retired professor of legal studies, Christine Beck‘s poems have been published in journals and anthologies. Her poem “Sometimes He Comes Home Bloody” won the Leo Connellan prize and was published in Connecticut Review in 2011. Her most recent chapbook of the same name is forthcoming from Pudding House Press. She is the programming director and Editor of the Newsletter of the Connecticut Poetry Society.
Aphorisms
*Please copy and paste your entire submission into one attachment when you upload your file.*You get 160 glorious characters of space to use as profoundly as you can for the body of your submission. You may enter a maximum of 10 aphorisms per submission.
Poetry
*Please copy and paste your entire submission into one attachment when you upload your file.*Up to five poems, no more than seven pages total, per submission.